Professor Gerard Danjoux
MBBS, FRCA
Graduated: Newcastle University (1989)
Anaesthetic training: Northern Deanery (1992 - 2002)
Fellowship training: Australia (1998/9) and Canada (2000/1)
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Sleep Medicine at South Tees Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust (2002 to date).
Clinical interests
- Preparation and perioperative care of patients for high-risk surgery
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and risk evaluation
- Sleep Medicine
Quality Improvement
- PREP - developed Prehabilitation toolkit for primary care clinicians
- PREPWELL - leading a regional programme with Public Health specialists to develop, implement and sustain a community-based health and wellbeing programme for patients before surgery
Research interests
- Improving patient fitness for surgery through aerobic exercise training
- Patient behaviour change preoperatively
- Evaluating the effect of pharmacological interventions in simulated haemorrhage and tissue trauma - run volunteer programme with MOD
- Preoperative screening for OSA
Other Roles
- Visiting Professor at Teesside University and Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University
- Research Lead Preoperative Association
- Member of Perioperative Medicine Leadership Committee at RCoA
- Faculty for European and National Perioperative Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Courses
- UK lead for organiser of 2nd World Congress in Prehabilitation (Holland 2018)